Alberto Ponce

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Alberto Ponce (actually Alberto González Muñoz , born March 13, 1935 in Madrid ; † July 26, 2019 ) was a Spanish guitarist , guitar teacher and university teacher .

Life

Ponce was born in Spain and, after moving from Madrid to Barcelona with his parents, received his first musical training at the Barcelona Conservatory from around 1948 . He then went to see Emilio Pujol , a student of Francisco Tárrega , with his father around 1955 , played the guitar for him and was then taught by him at the Conservatory in Lisbon and then at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena . In 1961 he was appointed professor of guitar at the Conservatoire de Paris and in 1962 at the École Normale de Musique de Paris , where he worked until the end. In 1962 Ponce won first prize in the French Radio International Guitar Competition.

meaning

Alberto Ponce had a great influence on contemporary guitar through his teaching activities and trained numerous internationally renowned guitarists, including

  • Jean-François Delcamp (* 1956), professor at the Conservatoire de Musique, de Danse et d'Art Dramatique de Brest métropole océane
  • Roland Dyens (1955–2016), professor at the Conservatoire de Paris and one of the most influential contemporary guitarists and composers for guitar
  • Luis Manuel Molina (* 1959), Cuban guitarist and composer
  • Kaori Muraji (* 1978), Japanese guitarist with numerous publications

Works for guitar by contemporary composers, including Antonio Ruiz-Pipó , Maurice Ohana and Roland Dyens, have been dedicated to Ponce . Ponce associated with artists such as Alexandre Tansman and Robert Vidal .

Discography

  • L'Art de la Guitare , Vol. 1, Arion 1971
  • Maurice Ohana: Si le jour Parait , with the Orquesta Filarmonica del Prado, Arion 1974

literature

  • Maurice J. Summerfield: The classical guitar: Its Evolution and Its Players Since 1800. University of Michigan 1991, p. 158 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Le guitariste Alberto Ponce s'est éteint accessed on August 7, 2019
  2. ↑ Wolf Moser : "... from a person out of line ...". A conversation with Alberto Ponce about Emilio Pujol. In: Guitar & Laute 8, 1986, pp. 8-14; here: p. 9.
  3. ↑ Wolf Moser (1986), p. 14.
  4. ^ Wolf Moser: 23rd "International Guitar Competition 1981" of the French radio in Paris. In: Guitar & Laute 2, 1980, 3, p. 20 f.
  5. ^ José Luis García del Busto: Tomás Marco . 1986, p. 76
personal data
SURNAME Ponce, Alberto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES González Muñoz, Alberto (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish guitarist and guitar teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid
DATE OF DEATH 26th July 2019